Vagina Infections

Bidet shower toilet
Cultural background of the cultivated intimate care

Bidets allow a careful anal and genital hygiene. It keeps you healthy and helps the healing of vaginal fungal disease and hemorrhoids.

Fidel Castro owes his life to a bidet

Hardly anyone knows that a bidet has written contemporary history: Back in 1959, Ilona Marita Lorenz was the mistress of Fidel Castro. Eight and a half months took the liaison between the German and Cuban revolutionary leader. Later, Marita Ilona Lorenz poison the Prime Minister of Cuba on behalf of the CIA and the Mafia. But she threw the pills out of love to the bidet, and Castro remained in the world. Is not well known about the origins of the bidet: As a simple office pool, it should have been known since ancient times. To flush the vagina before and after coitus it is mentioned in Greek marriage contracts, reports the Museum of Contraception and Abortion in Vienna. In its current form, that of the French furniture maker there in the late 17th or early 18 Century have been invented. At that time, the bidet was still in the bedroom. It was not until the 20th Century sanitary engineering, developed the bidets walked into the bathroom. Today, the bidet in southwestern Europe, the Arab countries and Latin America is a natural Badutensil, in Germany it has not yet enforced. A shortcoming that foreigners can turn up their noses at the filth of the Germans.

Water cleans gently as toilet paper

Who looks for the first time, a bidet, it usually lasts for a new toilet. But: First, it goes to the toilet first and then again bidet. The seat is rather used to sink to clean the anus and genitals. But as the ancient Greeks believed otherwise, a bidet can not prevent pregnancy. Nevertheless, tangible benefits speak for bathroom furniture: It cleans more thoroughly than toilet paper, and is friendly. This is human suffering with hemorrhoids and benefit women with vaginal infections, but also the elderly and disabled people who are restricted in their movements. The use is quite simple: you set down on the bidet - the other way around either the head or the faucet. The tank can be filled with a plug and seal. Most users, however, prefer to wash under running water.

Showered and blow-dried after the WC-transition

Bidets are now available in different versions - as a floor model or hung on the wall. Some have valves, others a nozzle, spray from the water. Also, can convert a toilet to a bidet. Such "shower toilets" are attached to the rear toilet you can have two nozzles.. A short to clean the anus and a long, can be cleaned with the women of their genital area, some showers and toilets even have heated seats and built-in air dryer, the Po blow dry and vagina after Abdu. In Analerkrankungen doctors advise much to the subsequent installation of a shower and toilets. patients with hemorrhoids disease, polyp-like formations, an incident, incontinence and inflammatory diseases of the skin in this region benefit from it, says Prof. Alfred Huber, a surgeon at Center for the proctology Confraternität Vienna. "In keeping with good care can be said that can be prevented in a large number of people through prophylactic anal hygiene using a shower toilet many diseases in the anal area," he says. And "in existing diseases such as hemorrhoids, make the shower toilet is an important contribution to healing."

Spraying to prevent disappearances of germs

The Viennese gynecologist Dr. Franz Fischler has showers and toilets now recommended for women: "In addition to a pleasant, hygienic cleaning in the anal area, it also has a kind of bidet function, which can be used also for the hygienic, easy cleaning of the external genital area very well, especially during the monthly menstrual period. Lie but the anal and the vaginal opening is very close to each other, creating a germ spreading in the classic cleansing 'is easier than using a shower and toilets. " In fact, bacteria and fungi from the gut often go through a contact infection in the vagina. Gynecologists are therefore not tire of stressing that women after a bowel movement should always wipe from front to rear. In addition, doctors advise women just have a tendency to vaginal yeast from sitz baths as recommended. For fungus sufferers are shower and toilets, but also conventional bidets, therefore, a good addition to their personal hygiene. (Mj)